Hysteria: I'm feeling good vibrations
The Victorians really did invent the first vibrator to cure women of various 'afflictions', but the reality probably wasn't anything like as much fun as is depicted here

From student to dominatrix
A woman has told of how she went from being a student at an elite private school in Manhattan to a whip-wielding dominatrix earning $300 an hour for her services.

Virginity auction man nearly quit
A 24-year-old man who has spent the last three years attempting to lose his virginity admits the experience has been hard and that at times he thought about pulling out.

Why kissing is so much fun
Researchers from Oxford University claim kissing is the key to finding your ideal partner and the main tool we use in order to select potential mates [more]

Shock! Mums like sex too
After candidly dealing with sex issues on the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour for 20 years, Jennu Murray felt she was unshockable. Then she logged on to the confessions on Mumsnet website

Germany's 'Porno King' gives up empire
Fabian Thylmann was, until last week, owner of the company that ran sites such as Youporn, Pornhub and MyDirtyHobby, but the reasons for his exit are unclear.

The lust beneath Japan's sex drought
The media's renewed obsession with reports that the Japanese have given up on sex, is an canard that emerges every couple of year. But is it true?

15% Women won't let husbands see them naked
In one study, 15% of married couples said they didn't have reguarly sex any more, while another said that 1 in 6 women won't let their husbands see them without clothes on.

Guy to lose virginity for art project
In a bid to understand where the obsession with virginity, London art school student Clayton Pettet, has decided to lose his flower in front of a crowd next year as part of performance piece titled Art School Took My Virginity. [more]

What color is an orgasm?
People with synesthesia can feel colors, see music, and smell words. So what's it like to have sex when you've got synesthesia? Thanks to some inquisitive researchers, we have the answer.

Why do we make sex lists?
Most of us don't have the problem of trying to catalog the several hundred sexual partners we've had by our thirties, but for me, even the dozens were starting to blend together.

What sex-positivity rally means
Sex-positivity is not advocating for any particular quantity or form of sexual expression. Rather, it is about ownership, agency, self-awareness, and respect

UK police response to public nudity
I wrote to all the Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners in February 2013 requesting their policy on policing nudity in a public place. The responses make interesting reading

Woman sues NYPD for topless arrest
In a complaint filed in state court earlier this month, Krigsman v. City of New York, Jessica Krigsman seeks money damages for her unconstitutional arrest for not wearing a shirt in a public park in Brooklyn

Self-published e-books rife with illicit erotica
An outcry over extreme content in self-published e-books -- depicting rape, incest and other illegal sex acts -- has led Amazon, Kobo and other online booksellers to reconsider how those books are sold on their sites

Risque lingerie advert pulled after complaints
A risque Adelaide lingerie advertisement has been pulled from Australian television screens after the Advertising Standards Board upheld a complaint about it being in poor taste [video]

It's International Fisting day!
International Fisting Day is a sex-positive, feminist, porn-positive, and personal global event, celebrating and debunking the negative stereotypes of fisting, a sex act that uses the entire hand.

Joyful gay sex
A new book, Joyful Gay Sex: The Ultimate Pleasure Guide, does for gay sex what Alex Comfort's 1970s book, The Joy of Sex, did for the rest of us

A brief history of group sex
Thanks to Paleolithic cave art, we know that humans have been participating in group sex for thousands of years. So why is there so little research devoted to it?

The sex facts we learnt too late
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Just think of all the stuff you would have done differently if you only knew then, what you know now.

17 Oct 2013

TV channel hosts 'breast squeeze' benefit
We've seen some crazy television shows come out of Japan, but this has to qualify as the craziest. Satellite adult channel Paradise TV, hosted a breast squeeze charity event.

How I became a swinger
We've been swingers, or "in the lifestyle," as it's called, for six years. Yes, we are in a committed relationship and openly enjoying sex with people outside of our relationship.

What we get wrong about sex
For a country that places so much importance on sex, we seem to go out of our way to make ourselves miserable as possible over the subject

Would you date a 40-year-old virgin?
I've just met a guy online and we really clicked but he turns out to be a 32-year-old virgin! He's attractive and it makes me wonder if he's damaged in some way

15 Oct 2013

50% newlyweds don't have sex first night
Since so many of us either aren't virgins, and have probably lived with each other before the big day, only 48% of people actually manage to have sex on the wedding night

Naked rowers infuriated feminists
Seventeen female students from Warwick University Rowing Society posed-up completely naked for a charity camera, after feminists criticised their topless calendar last year

Topless woman sues NY police
A woman says the New York City Police Department trampled her civil rights by arresting her for sunbathing topless on a park bench.

Will everyone have naked selfies online?
Students in Dallas have rallied to save the job of 21-year-old Spanish teacher Cristy Nicole Deweese, who was recently outed as a person whose boobs were once photographed.

Au naturel is the business in South Africa
From naked computer technicians to a concert where the audience and musicians are all in the buff, South Africans are embracing nudity two decades after the fall of apartheid.

3 Tips for the best sex of your life
Research published in the American Journal of Medicine shows that women's sexual satisfaction actually tends to increase with age -- even despite the hormonal throes of menopause. [more]

Do groups of women menstruate together?
One of the most interesting myths about women's reproductive functioning is the romanticized notion of menstrual synchrony, but there's very little, if any, scientific evidence that it actually occurs.

How to give multiple orgasms
The clitoris, has twice as many nerve endings as the penis and has the enviable ability to produce multiple orgasms, so long as you know what to do with it.

7 Oct 2013

Sex after marriage
There's a myth that sex for married people is about as attractive as a contagious disease, and I want to set the record straight.

Why Sex Box is must-watch TV
It's made headlines around the world, scandalised the USA, and attracted 1000's of comments. And it hasn't even been on telly yet. [more]

What I learned sbout myself
I didn't think much about running into my ex, until later that evening, when I was planning my lecture for my eleventh grade girls' sexuality seminar for the following morning

Fear Of Flying, showed women like sex too
In 1973, Erica Jong was tired of reading about silent, seething housewifes, so she introduced a new kind of female protagonist: a frank young woman who loved sex and wasn't ashamed to admit it.

Teens can kiss and have sex
The South African Constitutional Court has ruled that the Sexual Offences Act infringed the rights to dignity and privacy of children aged 12 to 16 but was also not in their best interests.

Let's read about sex
Writing about sex can be uniquely powerful and perilous. A group of novelists, memoirists and poets tell us about working blue: what novels first inspired them, what nouns they strive to avoid and who they think writes sex best.

Why we need more cunnilingus on TV
Television is the closest thing we have to mass communicated cultural values. If we can shift it toward a depiction of sexuality that places equal value on female pleasure and female desire, that's a win.

3 Oct 2013

Californian bans revenger porn
California governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that could punish distributors of "revenge porn" with up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine [more]

The world's largest orgasm?
Condom manufacturer Trojan is trying to create the world's largest simultaneous orgasm by inviting particpants to come together [more]

Is sex too real for UK reality TV?
True to its original reputation for spicing up Britain's airwaves, Channel 4 is about to embark on a new series that tackles that most nettlesome of subjects: sex.

How porn turn sex into a fetish
Have you ever thought about how porn has changed the way we get down to it? If Aliens wanted to check our mating practices, watching porn would probably raise more questions than it would answer